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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ZACI-IARY T. I-IALL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 408,102, dated July 30, 1889.

Application iiled February 16, 1889. Serial No, 300,164. (No model.)

when weight is superimposed thereon at theV rim thereof.

It also consists of the securing-spring d ctachably connected with the tray.

It further consists of novel means for connecting the spring with the tray.

Figure l represents a plan View of a childs tray, partly broken away, showing the securing-spring and means for connecting the same lwith the tray. Fig. 2 represents a front view of said spring and adjacent portions of thc tray on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation on an enlarged scale. Figs. LL and 5 represent perspective views of detached portions.

Similar letters and numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a childs tray, which, excepting the feature of my invention applied thereto, is of usual construction.

To the rim of the tray at what may be termed the front thereof or side next to the child, and at the center thereof, is secu red a foot B, which consists of the vertical piece or plate 1, which depends from said rim and joins the base 2, the latter proj ectin laterally from the bottom of the tray, forming a wide support for said portion l, it being seen that the foot rests on the table and prevents the tray from being tilted or overturned when the child snperimposes its weight on the tray. Rising from the base 2 is a loop or keeper C, which in the present case is integral with said base.

D represents the spring,` of the tray, Jthe same being constructed of suitable wire or other material bent into the forni of a bow, with its ends turned upwardly, as at 3, and

horizontally into hooks, as at 4, said spring being connected with the keeper C as follows: The ends of the bow are pressed together, so as to enter between the sides of said keeper, and passed through the latter, when they are let go, whereby they expand and the hooks 4 interlock with the sides of the keeper. The portions 5 of the hooks 4 enter slots 6 in the vertical portion of the foot, and are engaged by the walls of said slots, and thus the spring is connected with the foot B or plate l of the tray in a firm and reliable manner.

Should it be desired to remove the spring, it is readily accomplished by pressing the ends of the same toward each other, so that the hooks clear the sides of the keeper, after which the spring is drawn outwardly, the hooks then leaving the keeper and being thereby entirely disconnected from the tray.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a childs tray with a holding-spring consisting of a wire detachably secured to the rim, and such I do not claim; but I am not aware that it is old to construct a foot for the tray or to secure a spring to the same, as herein set forth and claimed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A tray having a foot connected with an overhanging rim thereof, said foot consisting of a vertical plate and a laterally-projecting base, said parts being combinedsubstantially as described.

2. A tray having a foot consisting of a vertical plate depending from the front of the overhanging rim of the said tray, and provided with a base projecting laterally from the base thereof toward the bottoni of the tray, said parts being combined substantially as described.

A tray having a foot secured to its rim and provided with a laterally-proj ecting base, a keeper rising from said base, and a holdingspring below said base and with ends secured in said keeper, said parts being combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. A tray with a foot secured to its rim and having a laterally-projecting base, a keeper rising from said base, and a spring with hooked ends secured in said keeper, said parts beingeombined substanbizillyzis andfor and the hooked ends to be secured in said bhe purpose set forth. keeper, said parts ioeing` Combined substan- 1o 5. A tray having a foo' consisting of a vertia'lly as described. tical plate with L slot therein, and L laterally- ZACHARY ,D HALL projecting base with 2L keeper thereon, land a spring with uprights 3, hooked ends 4, and Vitnesses:

connecting portions 5, the said .portions 5 JOHN A. VIEDERSHEIM, adapted to enter the slots of the vertical plate A. P. JENNINGS. 

